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Cliff Judge wrote:
So what exactly are all of those densho and such that you see in the Takumakai film, and in Mr. Erard's documentary videos? The idea that Daito ryu doesn't have a solid. pre-Sokaku foundation has stopped making sense to me. One of my questions is, why is there all of this documentation involved with the art when the guy who allegedly made it all up was illiterate?
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Cliff
Every seminar I have gone to during my many years at Aikido I have watched folks taking notes....notes... Many of the those I saw taking notes years ago are now teaching with others taking notes of what they are seeing....notes to help them remember. Most of those teaching these days are not writing books and there are really very few books from the past.....so how do others remember....notes. I think most of the documentation is just that.....published memories and notes of what was seen, heard and experienced... Of course each of us see, hear and experience differently.
Gary